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Sweet Soubrette - An Electron Emits a Photon, Travels Backwards in Time

from Bushwick Book Club presents "Feynman" by Jim Ottaviani by The Bushwick Book Club

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Sweet Soubrette wrote and performed this song for the October 2011 performance of the Bushwick Book Club inspired by Jim Ottaviani's "Feynman." Excerpt from Sweet Soubrette's intro. that night: He was such a joyful person and so playful and had such abundant curiousity and that was kind of inspiring to me as a sort of neurotic worrier...

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Not going to simplify gonna tell it like it is
If you don’t like it find another place to live
It’s all photons and electrons over and over again
The laws that apply are self-evident don’t make any sense

There’s a lot of stuff we don’t understand
See the universe in a grain of sand
But our theories don’t explain gravity
Or the things we see when we go to sleep

An electron emits a photon, travels backwards in time
Richard Feynman writes a letter to his dead wife
He says: I tried to show you the tapes that I made
But there were delays and I was too late

It doesn’t matter if you like this game
More in heaven and earth than any scientist can name
The great mystery of life is how can any body know
Of all the paths it could take where’s it gonna go honey even though

We can calculate probabilities
We imagine the possibilities
But the gods they play their celestial chess
We don’t understand we just take a guess

An electron emits a photon, travels backwards in time
Richard Feynman writes a letter to his dead wife
He says: Please excuse me for not mailing this
But I don’t know your new address

Now write this down in indelible ink
What do you care about what other people think
What seems impossible is just a state of mind
An electron emits a photon travels back in time
Travels back in time travels back in time...

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from Bushwick Book Club presents "Feynman" by Jim Ottaviani, released October 7, 2011
Recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday on October 7th, 2011. Photo by Herb Scher (herbscher.com)

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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